G 2170
Western Cemetery
Western Cemetery: Site: Giza; View: G 2320 = G 5280, G 2310 = G 5180, G 2200 = G 5080, G 2350 = G 5290, G 2300 = G 5190, G 2190 = G 5090, G 2180, G 2160, G 2170
Details
- ID
- G 2170
- Alternate IDs
- G 2170; G2170
- Site Name
- Western Cemetery
- Site Type
- Stone-built mastaba
- Site Dates
- type: Reisner Date; date: Late Dyn. 4 to early Dyn. 5
- Tomb Owner
- No
- Bibliography
- Manuelian, Peter Der. "A Re-examination of Reisner's Nucleus Cemetery Concept at Giza. Preliminary Remarks on Cemetery G 2100." In Miroslav Bárta, ed. The Old Kingdom Art and Archaeology. Proceedings of the Conference held in Prague, May 31-June 4, 2004. Prague: Czech Institute of Egyptology, 2006, pp. 224-227, 230, fig. 2. Reisner, George A. A History of the Giza Necropolis 1. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1942, pp. 449-450. Reisner, George A., and Clarence S. Fisher. "Preliminary Report on the Work of the Harvard-Boston Expedition in 1911-13." Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Egypte 13 (1914), pp. 227-252.
- Remarks
- In the 1912 excavation season, Reisner called this mastaba b3. Junker originally called this mastaba IX 4.
